The Figure-Head
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The Figure-Head
The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped,
(Named from the carven pair at prow,)
He so smart, and a curly head,
She tricked forth as a bride knows how:
Pretty stem for the port, I trow!
But iron-rust and alum-spray
And chafing gear, and sun and dew
Vexed this lad and lassie gay,
Tears in their eyes, salt tears nor few;
And the hug relaxed with the failing glue.
But came in end a dismal night,
With creaking beams and ribs that groan,
A black lee-shore and waters white:
Dropped on the reef, the pair lie prone:
O, the breakers dance, but the winds they
moan!
About Herman Melville
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Summary
John Marr and Other Sailors
John Marr and Other Sailors
Bridegroom Dick
Tom Deadlight
Jack Roy
Sea Pieces
The Haglets
The Aeolian Harp
To the Master of the Meteor
Far Off-Shore
The Man-of-War Hawk
The Figure-Head
The Good Craft Snow Bird
Old Counsel
The Tuft of Kelp
The Maldive Shark
To Ned
Crossing the Tropics
The Berg
The Enviable Isles
Pebbles
Poems From Timoleon
Lines Traced
The Night March
The Ravaged Villa
The New Zealot to the Sun
Monody
Lone Founts
The Bench of Boors
Art
The Enthusiast
Shelley's Vision
The Marchioness of Brinvilliers
The Age of the Antonines
Herba Santa
Off Cape Colonna
The Apparition
L'Envoi
Poems From Battle Pieces
Supplement
The Portent
From the Conflict of Convictions
The March into Virginia
Ball's Bluff
The Stone Fleet
The Temeraire
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Flight
Malvern Hill
Stonewall Jackson
The House Top
Chattanooga
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
The Swamp Angel
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
In the Prison Pen
The College Colonel
The Martyr
Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh
Aurora Borealis
The Released Rebel Prisoner
On the Slain Collegians
America
Inscription
The Fortitude of the North
The Mound by the Lake
On the Slain at Chickamauga
An Uninscribed Monument
On the Grave of A Young Cavalry Officer
A Requiem
Commemorative of A Naval Victory
A Meditation
Poems From Mardi
We Fish
Invocation
Dirge
Marlena
Pipe Song
Song of Yoomy
Gold
The Land of Love
Poems From Clarel
Dirge
Epilogue
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